Table of contents
1. Quick notes on the character - 2. The didactic climate and the canonical scientific tradition in the Pontifical Universities in the years between Leo XIII and Benedict XV - 3. The relationship with Giuseppe Chiovenda and the collaboration with the jurists of the secular area: adherence to a scientific approach free from frameworks – 4. The systematic method, historical reading, willingness to disciplinary comparition - 5. Themes and problems: the dogmatic openness to the "relational theory" of lay procedural lawyers in respect of the peculiar differences of substance between juridical systems - 6. Roberti's legacy and the topicality of his contribution on the scientific method in recent canonists of the Italian and Spanish schools: the canonical procedural doctrine between the two codifications (Della Rocca; Moreno Hernández; Guasp; Cabreros de Anta) - 7. The canonists following the 1983 Codex Iuris Canonici (Arroba Conde; Pinto; De Diego -Lora and Rodríguez Ocaña; Goti Ordeñana) – 8. Conclusions